I really need to keep my (actual) programming skills up to date, because they might be worth a ton of money in some years when everyone will need to unfuck their vibe coded bs.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even if the pay is good - unfucking vibed code is going to be very grueling. Like fixing legacy code but so much worse - because legacy code at least used to make sense at some point in the past.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

legacy code at least used to make sense at some point in the past.

That assumption doesn't hold where I work.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Did you go back with a time machine to make sure it didn't make sense back when it was written?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I know my colleagues and former colleagues, and have reason to be confident it didn't.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Bold of you to assume anyone is going to care enough to hire professionals to fix old software. They're just going to vibe code a new program with the new whizbang-5000 LLM.

[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago

TBH I only occasionally do some C# and C++ for about 20 years in my spare time, but even if I were hypothetically qualified to fix the world i'm kind of just planning to sit back and watch all of the sloppers go bankrupt for ruining their companies.